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We continue to rage and resist!
Change is not coming when even the front-runners of supposed change become the bearers of discrimination against women. Duterte’s series of anti-women remarks and rape jokes are a blatant disrespect to the Magna Carta of Women and the 1987 Constitution. Female critics...
Women resist sexism and misogyny: END SEXUAL VIOLENCE NOW!
The Women’s Legal and Human Rights Bureau stands with women, human rights organizations, and activists who condemn the series of sexist remarks made by President Rodrigo Duterte. We abhor the president’s misogynistic, anti-women statements that contribute to the...
Weaving Women’s Voices in Southeast Asia
Weaving Women’s Voices in ASEAN (WEAVE) is a regional group of women’s organizations and advocates working at the national level in six ASEAN countries: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand. WEAVE advocates for women’s...
Challenging Philippines to be at Forefront of Promoting Women’s Agenda and Human Rights in the ASEAN in 2017
Quezon City, Philippines-- 17 November 2016Women’s organizations from different sectors and provinces of the country discussed the Women’s Agenda for the Philippine Chairship of ASEAN in 2017.The Philippines is the host of the ASEAN in 2017 with the theme, “Partnering...